Professor Mike Payne
Professor and Head of Theory of Condensed Matter
Fellow and Director of Studies, Pembroke College
FRS
Group: Theory of Condensed Matter
Address:
TCM Group,
Cavendish Laboratory,
JJ Thomson Avenue,
Cambridge CB3 0HE.
Email: mcp1 "at" cam.ac.uk
Group Secretary / Administrator / Personal Assistant:
David Taylor
Tel: +44 (0)1223 337254
Fax: +44 (0)1223 337356
Email: tcmadmin "at" phy.cam.ac.uk
Biography:
Prof Mike Payne is currently Head of TCM, and has worked on first principles total energy calculations since 1985 and is the author of the first principles total energy pseudopotential code CASTEP. He was awarded the 1996 Maxwell Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics and gave the 1998 Mott Lecture. He is responsible for many of the technical developments that have led to the widespread adoption of the total energy pseudopotential technique and has pioneered the application of this technique to a wide range of scientific problems from physics, chemistry, materials science, earth sciences and, most recently, biology.
Research Interests:
Research Group - Theory of Condensed Matter
Selected Publications: